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MelissaB

(16,420 posts)
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 05:35 PM Aug 2017

Ed Butowsky (behind Seth Rich story) is no longer allowed "inside the building." at Fox News

A small nugget: A Fox News source with direct knowledge of internal decisions said Ed Butowsky is no longer allowed "inside the building."



One of the stories done about this below as a reminder of who Butowsky is.


Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale

... snip

The lawsuit focuses particular attention on the role of the Trump supporter, Ed Butowsky, in weaving the story. He is a wealthy Dallas investor and unpaid Fox commentator on financial matters who has emerged as a reliable Republican surrogate in recent years. Butowsky offered to pay for Wheeler to investigate the death of the DNC aide, Seth Rich, on behalf of his grieving parents in Omaha, Neb.

On April 20, a month before the story ran, Butowsky and Wheeler — the investor and the investigator — met at the White House with then-press secretary Sean Spicer to brief him on what they were uncovering.

The first page of the lawsuit quotes a voicemail and text from Butowsky boasting that Trump himself had reviewed drafts of the Fox News story just before it went to air and was published.

Spicer now tells NPR that he took the meeting as a favor to Butowsky. Spicer says he was unaware of any contact involving the president. And Butowsky tells NPR that he was kidding about Trump's involvement.

More: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story
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Ed Butowsky (behind Seth Rich story) is no longer allowed "inside the building." at Fox News (Original Post) MelissaB Aug 2017 OP
Now that Mueller has knowledge of Hannity's involvement with RIS BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #1
K&R Scurrilous Aug 2017 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,636 posts)
1. Now that Mueller has knowledge of Hannity's involvement with RIS
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 05:42 PM
Aug 2017

will he be locked out soon too? Perhaps his show's advertisers will have to pull out from his show like they did with Bill-Obama the clown.

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